Glass flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale yellow green; trails in same color. Rounded rim, partially folded out, over, and in; slender, funnel-shaped neck; body expanding downwards with convex side, then turned in; integral splayed foot ring; kick in bottom with pontil mark at center. A single fine trail wound horizontally once around middle of neck; thirteen spiral ribs of unequal length and shape covering body from base of neck to fold above foot ring. Cracked around lower body with one hole in side, most of trail around neck missing, with weathered broken end; many bubbles; dulling and faint iridescence on exterior, staining and brown weathering on interior.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art